Word: bents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...National organization, somehow supplied it with funds and courage. A great part of the country never appreciated his spirit. The North-East, especially, looked upon him as another ambitious man, one with displeasing associations, one whose ingenious scheming had made him something to be reckoned with. The hell-bent determination which carried his organization through the crisis when it was disclosed that he was a Doheny lawyer, highly-paid-the spirit which succeeded in weathering that storm-was indeed something to be reckoned with...
...twelve members had high blood pressure, and in another instance nine members in one family died of hemorrhage of the brain due to high blood pressure. Now Doctors J. P. O'Hare, W. G. Walker and M. C. Vickers of Boston present figures for the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital of that city which indicate that in a large majority of cases the heredity factor may be demonstrated as important. The figures demonstrate conclusively, they believe, that a family history of heart, kidney and brain disease is 'twice as common in a patient with high blood pressure...
Such a system of free choice could only be open to the student showing evidences of capacity and leadership during his first two years. The evincing of these qualities would give the student the privilege of breaking out of an inflexible course to follow the bent of his mind in anything and in any way. He would be allowed to browse throughout the curriculum pasture without restriction. To students ambitious and of independent mind this would be a desiratum satisfied in the best possible matter: The graduate schools show its effect as well as the English system. Graduate Students...
...married life was at first happy. The very young couple, bent on reform, hurried hither and thither, always intent upon settling down "for ever" in every place which touched their fancy. But their marital bliss became clouded, they parted, and Shelley entered concubinage with beautiful Mary Godwin, daughter of his hero-philosopher...
Several months ago, a party set out for the interior of the Darien peninsula, once more bent on the ancient quest. For days and weeks they remained buried in a wilderness of swamp and jungle grass, with nothing to connect them to civilization but a small wireless outfit and the monotonously regular stretcher parties that bore their muttering burdens back to the hospital at Colon. Yesterday, however, came a radiogram. The leader of the expedition reported that of the eleven original members, three were still left in the party; they intended to continue their march in the morning...